Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
By: Lisa Feldman Barrett
4.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the author of How Emotions Are Made , a captivating collection of short essays about your bra…
Want to Read $ 13.99"The triune brain idea is one of the most successful and widespread errors in all of science."-Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
"Sometimes we're responsible for things not because they're our fault, but because we're the only ones who can change them."-Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
"The best thing for your nervous system is another human. The worst thing for your nervous system is also another human. This situation leads us to a fundamental dilemma of the human condition."-Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
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1. The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of Life and the Future of Humankind
By: Richard E. Leakey , Roger Lewin
3.80
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Richard Leakey, One Of The World's Foremost Experts On Man's Evolutionary Past, Now Turns His Eye T… read more
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2. The Meme Machine
By: Richard Dawkins , Susan Blackmore
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
What is a meme? First coined by Richard Dawkins in 'The Selfish Gene', a meme is any idea, behavior… read more
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3. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Why do we do the things we do? More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert … read more
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4. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
By: David Eagleman
3.89
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
If the conscious mind--the part you consider you--accounts for only a tiny fraction of the brain's … read more
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5. Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Renowned primatologist Robert Sapolsky offers a completely revised and updated edition of his most … read more
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6. The Brain: The Story of You
By: David Eagleman
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Hardcover
Locked in the silence and darkness of your skull, your brain fashions the rich narratives of your r… read more
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7. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
8. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
By: Anil Seth
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons wo… read more
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9. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
By: Max Solomon Bennett
4.46
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts Sapiens , Behave, and Superintelligence , but wholly original in scope, A Brief History… read more
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10. Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
By: Charan Ranganath
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, on… read more
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11. Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
By: Anna Lembke
3.91
Format: 304 pages, ebook
This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most important, it's about how to find the delic… read more
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"The reason we’re all so miserable may be because we’re working so hard to avoid being miserable."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"The paradox is that hedonism, the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake, leads to anhedonia, which is the inability to enjoy pleasure of any kind."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"With prolonged and repeated exposure to pleasurable stimuli, our capacity to tolerate pain decreases, and our threshold for experiencing pleasure increases."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"Beyond extreme examples of running from pain, we’ve lost the ability to tolerate even minor forms of discomfort. We’re constantly seeking to distract ourselves from the present moment, to be entertai…"-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
12. The Circadian Code: Lose Weight, Supercharge Your Energy, and Transform Your Health from Morning to Midnight: Longevity Book
By: Satchin Panda
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When we eat may be as important as what we eat. Like most people, you probably wake up, get hungry… read more
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13. Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
By: Lisa Feldman Barrett
4.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the author of How Emotions Are Made , a captivating collection of short essays about your bra… read more
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- neuroscience
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- nonfiction
- science
"The triune brain idea is one of the most successful and widespread errors in all of science."-Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
"Sometimes we're responsible for things not because they're our fault, but because we're the only ones who can change them."-Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
"The best thing for your nervous system is another human. The worst thing for your nervous system is also another human. This situation leads us to a fundamental dilemma of the human condition."-Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
14. The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
By: Daniel Z. Lieberman
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Why are we obsessed with the things we want and bored when we get them? Why is addiction "perfect… read more
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"It’s better to be smart than strong."-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
"Success inspired confidence; confidence produced success."-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
"Having a confident expectation of success can make obstacles melt before your eyes."-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
"As the German philosopher Arthur Schoppenhauer wrote, "Dreams are brief madness and madness a long dreams."-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
15. Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness
By: Nicholas Humphrey
3.91
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The story of a quest to uncover the evolutionary history of consciousness from one of the world's l… read more
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16. Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind
By: Annaka Harris
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "If you’ve ever wondered how you have the capacity to wonder, some fas… read more
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17. Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
By: David Eagleman
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Incognito and Sum comes a revelatory portrait of the human brain ba… read more
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"... So the basis of behavioral improvement is not simply the repeated performance of a task; it also requires neuromodulatory systems to encode relevance. Without acetylcholine, the ten thousand hour…"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
"The difference between predictions and outcomes is the key to understanding a strange property of learning: if you’re predicting perfectly, your brain doesn’t need to change further… Changes in the b…"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
"The fact is that the future is hard to predict. Whatever the case, as we move toward the horizon, the only certainty is that we will increasingly choose our own plug-and-play peripheral devices. We a…"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
"Several emerging companies, still in their infancy, hope to increase the speed of brain communication to the outside world by writing and reading neural data rapidly by means of direct plug-ins. The …"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
18. Paluumatkalla
By: Aino Huilaja
3.23
Format: 157 pages, Hardcover
Kirpaisevan hauska seikkailu Euroopan teillä syvenee rehelliseksi kuvaukseksi omannäköisen elämän j… read more
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19. The Experience Machine
By: Andy Clark
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worldsFor as long as … read more
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20. Minä näen sinut - arvostuksen psykologiaa
By: Pekka Tölli
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Ihmisen elämän läpi leikkaava tietokirja arvostavan kohtaamisen merkityksestä. Miksi toivomme tulev… read more
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21. Psykopatian monet kasvot
By: Jari Sinkkonen
3.71
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
”Olosuhteilla on suuri vaikutus. Lämpimällä, lapsen tarpeet huomioonottavalla vanhemmuudella on mer… read more
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22. La scienza del respiro
By: Mike Maric
3.68
Format: 221 pages, Hardcover
RESPIRARE, RILASSARSI, RITROVARSI: LA RICETTA DELL’UOMO DELFINO La respirazione è l’atto pi… read more
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23. A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You
By: Sean B. Carroll
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Fascinating and exhilarating--Sean B. Carroll at his very best.--Bill Bryson, author of The Body: A… read more
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24. The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
By: Joseph E. LeDoux
3.85
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms … read more
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25. The Happiest Person in the Room อยู่เย็นเป็นสูตร
By: ณัฐวุฒิ เผ่าทวี
4.00
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
"คู่มือออกแบบชีวิตพิชิตการเป็นมนุษย์ผู้มีความสุข โดยพาไปสำรวจว่าในแต่ละด้านของชีวิต ตั้งแต่การเงิน สุขภาพ หัวใจ… read more
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26. Eläimellistä parinvalintaa - Seksi ja perhe-elämä eläinten maailmassa
By: Ulla Tuomainen
3.82
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
Eläinten parisuhdemarkkinoilla höyhenet pöllyävät, evät ryskyvät ja sarvet kolisevat. Pesiä koriste… read more
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27. Suorituskyvyn salaisuus: Vireystilan säätelyn avulla huipputuloksiin
By: Hanna Markuksela
3.43
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
Viisaan itsensä kehittäjän käsikirja Opas niille, jotka haluavat voida mahdollisimman hyvin omas… read more
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28. The Balanced Brain
By: Camilla Nord
4.04
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
'Simply brilliant. This is science writing at its best. If you want to understand mental health - r… read more
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29. Sucka mitt hjärta men brist dock ej
By: Mark Levengood
3.80
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Sucka mitt hjärta men brist dock ej är ett urval av Mark Levengoods texter. I många år har Mark til… read more
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"Allt nytt vi får lära oss gör vår värld större, vi får ytterligare ett sammanhang att foga till de andra i vår evigt expanderande världsbild."-Mark Levengood, Sucka mitt hjärta men brist dock ej
"Tar jag mig tid att möta några på min väg så kommer antalet idioter att minska radikalt. Och framför allt kommer världen omkring mig att få möta en idiot mindre."-Mark Levengood, Sucka mitt hjärta men brist dock ej
30. La niña Ámbar: Crónica del horror de un psicópata y las fallas del Estado
By: Ivonne Toro
4.81
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
La primera vez que un organismo del Estado fue notificado de las amenazas que acechaban a Ámbar Cor… read more
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31. En se minä ollut – Itsen suojaamisen ja harhauttamisen perusteet
By: Johanna Stenberg
3.89
Format: 215 pages, None
En se minä ollut itsen harhauttamisen perusteet on ensimmäinen suomenkielinen tietokirja ihmisen mi… read more
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